O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention ! A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarchs to behold the swelling scene ! Then should the warlike Harry, like himself, Assume the port of Mars ; and, at his heels, Leash'd... Shakespeare and the Modern Stage: With Other Essays - Seite 18von Sir Sidney Lee - 1906 - 251 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| William Shakespeare - 1788 - 386 Seiten
...io3d sonnet ; « a face a face " That overgoes my blunt invention quite.'' Again, in King Henry V, " O, for a Muse of fire, that would ascend " The brightest heaven of invention." Invention is the reading of both the first and second folio. MALONE. 560. —Heaven is in my mouth,']... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1803 - 630 Seiten
...hostess. Lords, Ladies, Officers, French and English Soldiers, Masengers, and Attendants. Enter Chorus. O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest...employment. But pardon, gentles all, The flat unraised spirit, that hath dar'd, On this unworthy scaffold, to bring forth So great an object: Can this cockpit... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1803 - 494 Seiten
...SCENE, at the beginning of the Play, lies m England; but afterwards, wholly in France. Enter CHORUS. O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest...himself, Assume the port of Mars ; and, at his heels, Leash 'd in like hounds, should famine, sword, and fire, Crouch for employment. But pardon, gentles... | |
| Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1804 - 450 Seiten
...against France. The poet wishes for abilities to represent so great an hero: ' Oh for a Muse of fire ! Then should the warlike Harry, like himself, Assume...hounds, should Famine, Sword, and Fire, Crouch for employments.' A conqueror drawn like the god of battle, with such a dreadful leash of hell-hounds at... | |
| 1804 - 450 Seiten
...against France. The poet wishes for abilities to represent so great an hero: ' Oh for a Muse of fire ! Then should the warlike Harry, like himself, Assume the port of Mars ; and at his heels, T.eash'd in, like hounds, should Famine, Sword, and Fire, Crouch for employments.' A conqueror drawn... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 936 Seiten
...stubborn spirits They mill and crow as terrible as storms. Skahfeari. 9. To grow upon the view. 0 fur a muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven...invention ! A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarch* to behold the iieeJling scene. Stahftare. jo. It implies commonly a notion of something wrong.... | |
| E. H. Seymour - 1805 - 498 Seiten
...in Second Part of King Henry, Act 3 : " These faults are easy." — — KING HENRY V. CHORUS. 273. " O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend " The brightest heaven of invention," &c. I cannot, with Dr. Warburton, suppose that there is here any reference to the doctrine of the Peripatetics,... | |
| John Howe Baron Chedworth - 1805 - 392 Seiten
...FIFTH. J. and S. 1735. MA LONE. J. and S. 1793. Vol. vi. Vol. v. Vol. ix. P. 3.— 447.— 263. Chorus. O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention ! " Shakespeare (says Heron) knew nothing of " the allusions pointed out by his commentators. " What... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1805 - 506 Seiten
...SCENE, at the Beginning of the Play, lies in England; but afterwards wholly in France. Enter CHORUS. O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention ! l A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarchs to behold1 the swelling scene! Then should... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1805 - 514 Seiten
...'IliM HCI',NK, at the Beginning of ike Play, liet ; hut afterward* icholly in France. Enter CHORUS. O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention ! l A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarchs to behold2 the swelling scene! Then should... | |
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